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Military History
Interviews with scholars of military history about their new books.
August 30, 2026
Why Nations Still Fight
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow offe…
August 29, 2026
'PS: Burn after Reading'
After Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected in 1945, Canada was shocked by the revelation that its own citizens were engaged in espionage for…
August 25, 2026
Occupying the Everyday
Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharik…
August 24, 2026
The Military Entertainment Complex
The Military Entertainment Complex: Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Mhoze Chikowero is the story of the making of pos…
August 23, 2026
Constructing the Medieval Maritime State
Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2026) by Professor Travi…
August 23, 2026
Bytes and Bullets
Steve Feldstein's Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare (St. Martin's Press, 2026) opens with a juxta…
August 21, 2026
Pentagon Capitalism
The strategic landscape of the Cold War generated political support for a permanent US military force of unprecedented scale. Faced with the problem o…
August 19, 2026
War and Governance in Scotland, 1543-1559
Drawing from local archives alongside national and international records, War and Governance in Scotland, 1543-1559: Destruction, Reconstruction and R…
August 18, 2026
Asymmetric Warfare
The forces that fight asymmetric wars are so distinct that one side avoids direct military confrontation in favor of political, social, or otherwise u…
August 16, 2026
Asianism and the Fall of Empire
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (University of California Press, …
August 16, 2026
Nuclear Archipelago Secrets
Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia (NewSouth, 2026) tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weap…
August 14, 2026
Counterrevolution in Egypt
Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic (Verso Books, 2026) is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and method…
August 8, 2026
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
M. G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations and modern Japanese history from Waseda University in Tokyo. S…
August 7, 2026
Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers
Soldiers, Angels, and Avengers: A History of the Jewish Brigade (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2026) tells the compelling story of the Jewish Briga…
August 4, 2026
Empire and Frontier
Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701 (Pegasus Books, 2026) by Samuel Marquis presen…
August 2, 2026
A Post-Liberal Peace
In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising power…
August 2, 2026
Soldiers and Bushmen
Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902 (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Thomas Richardson examines the commitment to what was…
August 1, 2026
Atomic Collective
In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Kazakhstan inherited the remnants of one of the world's most contaminated landscapes: the Semipal…
July 28, 2026
On Who Blew Up Nord Stream
The September, 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines transporting Russian gas to Germany was perhaps the greatest single act of sabotage in modern …
July 28, 2026
The Greater Second World War
Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025) This ambitious edited collection …